• Mohammad Akif
• Damir Bersinic
• Bart Bischoff
• Richard Campbell
• Bruce Cowper
• Juergen Daiberl
• Dana Epp
• Steve Fox
• Adam Gallant

• Roger Grimes
• Plamen Hristov
• Peter Kelcey
• Kristina Kerr
• Paul Laberge
• William Oellermann
• Alain Paquette
• Joel Quimper
• Ram Ramanathan

• Dave Remmer
• Danielle Ruest
• Nelson Ruest
• Scott Stauffer
• Ryan Storgaard
• Darin Travis
• David Trowbridge
• Jamie Wakeam

Mohammad Akif is a Senior Architect tasked with supporting strategic account teams across Canada. He is also a member of the Microsoft Architecture Editorial Board and is passionate about documenting best practices for software architecture. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked as a Senior Java Architect at Sun Microsystems. Mohammad co-authored several publications including 'Java and XML Programmer's reference', 'Developing next generation Web applications though AJAX/Atlas', 'Web Services Certification exam', and he also contributed to the development of J2EE core patterns. He blogs about Microsoft and industry Architect events and various architecture topics at http://blogs.msdn.com/mohammadakif.

As an IT Pro Advisor for Microsoft Canada, Damir is passionate about reaching out to and engaging with the IT Pro community across Canada. He focuses on working with a broad range of audiences within the IT Pro community to foster relationships and convey Microsoft technologies and solutions. He is proud to be able to leverage his real life hands-on experience to relate to the challenges faced by the IT Pro community today.

Damir is an integral part of the Microsoft team that drives awareness, education and training through events and directly engaging with Canada's professional communities, including IT managers, infrastructure specialists and architects as well as systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and community leaders.

Before joining Microsoft Canada, Damir was Data Architect for a large building materials company, as well as a long-time consultant focusing on database and application integration issues. Before moving to Toronto he headed a Microsoft Certified Partner organization in Ottawa which provided consulting, training and systems integration services to private and public sector clients.

Damir is also an accomplished author with titles on SQL Server, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, Active Directory, and Oracle to his credit. He holds a large number of industry certifications including those from Microsoft, Oracle and other organizations.

Bart joined Microsoft in May 2006 as a Services Executive in the Heartland District within the US Central Region. During his time in the SE role, he worked on a consistent approach to delivering MOSS implementations in a modular fashion which has helped to drive enterprise solution-based service implementations and has resulted in the creation of some reusable IP for Services. In August 2007, Bart joined the BPIO MOSS team as a Senior Product Manager focused on building MOSS Service Offerings for Worldwide services.

Bart has over seventeen years of experience as an IT Professional and prior to joining Microsoft he was an IT Group Manager and Vice President with National City Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio. While there, he led a team of 90+ resources in the Enterprise Assets Group with responsibility for Enterprise Shared Technologies, Adaptive Development and was also a key member of the Architectural Review Board. He was responsible for defining services and repeatable solutions for the development of shared technologies within the enterprise. An enterprise implementation of SharePoint for portal, collaboration, content publishing and delivery of applications was just one of the many Enterprise Assets he created while leading this group.

Richard Campbell is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks and part of the team building an appliance to accelerate ASP.NET. Richard has more than 30 years of high-tech experience and is both a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). He has consulted with a number of leading North American organizations; Barnes & Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force. In addition to speaking at conferences around the world, Richard is co-host of the ".NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers" (www.dotnetrocks.com) podcast and the host of "RunAs Radio, the Internet Audio Talk Show for IT Professionals" (www.runasradio.com) podcast.

As the Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Canada’s Security initiative, Bruce is responsible for the security strategy including Incident Response, Training and Public Relations, frequently engaging with the community across Canada. He comes from a security background in secure system design, forensics and security risk management and as the Canadian Security Lead leverages his real life hands-on experience to relate to the challenges faced today. Bruce is a prolific speaker and can frequently be found in the media and at conferences across Canada and beyond.

Bruce is a founding member of the Toronto Area Security Klatch (TASK) and an active member of numerous organisations across Canada. Before moving to Toronto and joining Microsoft, Bruce held positions on the board of directors of several IT companies, championing the development of technical excellence and the customer experience.

Bruce holds a degree in Computer Systems Engineering as well as industry standard qualifications.

Juergen Daiberl is a Technical Evangelist at the Developer & Platform Evangelism Team in Redmond. He has 10 years of industry experience and he has worked for Microsoft since 2005. Prior to his role in Redmond he worked at the CTSC (Collaboration Technical Support Center) in Walldorf, Germany, a joint-staffed team between Microsoft and SAP. In his current role he is responsible for the interoperability between Microsoft .NET and SAP NetWeaver on the application level. Before joining Microsoft, Juergen worked as a Senior Consultant and Architect in the EAI Space for Softlab (a BMW Group Company) and for Compaq Professional Service.

In 2006, 2007 and 2008 Dana has been honored with the award and distinction of "Microsoft Windows Security MVP" for his work and expertise in Windows security and continues to provide leadership in the community in regards to the application of information security principles and practices into software development and use.

As a computer security software architect, Dana has spent the last 15 years focusing on computer programming with a particular emphasis on security engineering to offer a safer computing environment for the SMB space. He is the founder and CEO of Scorpion Software Corp, a leading company in the strong authentication space for small business.

Steve has been at Microsoft for nine years in various positions and technologies, including search, natural language, and more recently developer tools. He currently works in Developer and Platform Evangelism in the areas of Visual Studio Tools for Office, Office Business Applications, and SharePoint. Before Microsoft, Steve spent a number of years in the telecom industry and academia.

Adam Gallant is Microsoft Technology Solutions Professional for Developer Tools, who focuses on helping Microsoft’s customers and partners understand how to implement and drive value from Visual Studio Team System in their organizations. Adam has been dedicated to the technical and practical implementation of Microsoft .NET technology throughout his time at Microsoft.

Adam is an experienced speaker and frequently presents Microsoft Developer Network(MSDN) events across Canada.

With a solid background in application design and delivery, Adam has helped numerous clients across Canada with project and program management, business re-engineering and development, software development as well as architectural and technical consulting. He is an expert in the development of knowledge management and commerce capable applications, n-tier application architectures and the design and implementation of back-end business services, including Enterprise Application Integration. Some key projects include the design and development of commercial electronic storefronts, mission-critical database server diagnostics and support, as well as large scale policy management and administration systems based around ASP.NET Web Services and BizTalk Server in the insurance vertical.

Adam has been with Microsoft since 1993. His past roles have included Developer Evangelist, where he engaged with the developer community across the country in helping to drive excitement and implementation of the .net platform. Previous to that, Adam was a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services where he focuses on managing technical strategy aimed at customers and partners. In this role he assisted customers in designing, developing and delivering solutions based around the Microsoft Windows Server platform, as well as strategic planning around corporate and partner technology directions.

In addition to his extensive hands-on experience, Adam has acquired several Microsoft certifications including MCSE, MCDBA and MCSD.

Roger is a leading authority on Microsoft Windows security infrastructure and has consulted for some of the world’s best known enterprises, including every branch of the Armed forces, Microsoft, McAfee, VeriSign, IBM, Bridgestone/Firestone, Foundstone, RAND, cities, public school systems, and universities. Roger has written 7 books and over 200 magazine articles on computer security and taught the highly respected Foundstone Ultimate Hacking Expert courses on Windows and Linux security. In addition, Roger is a Professional Penetration Tester experienced with Linux and OpenBSD and runs 8 honeypots discovering and documenting hacker behavior and techniques. He is also a security columnist, blogger, and product reviewer for InfoWorld Magazine. Roger regularly teaches advanced computer security classes, including Foundstone’s Hacking Essentials, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and CISSP. He frequently speaks at the largest national conferences, including Windows Connections, MCP TechMentor, AICPA, and SANS. He has developed or edited multiple advanced security courses, including for Microsoft, Foundstone, SANS, and other companies

Plamen Hristov is the Leading Software Architect of the Agile Delivery Services Team at Canadian National Railway (CN). Former Microsoft Certified Trainer, Plamen has over 13 years of IT experience as professional developer, architect and IT consultant. In the beginning of 2008 Plamen has been awarded with the CN’s President’s Award for Excellence for a solution designed and developed with the Microsoft .Net technologies.

Peter Kelcey is an technology specialist with Microsoft Canada focusing on SOA and integration technologies. He works with clients through technology briefings, architectural design sessions and proof of concepts to show them how they can develop and implement more flexible, practical and effective integration solutions.

Kristina Kerr is a Sr. Product Manager in the Office Business Applications group at Microsoft. Her primary focus is on promoting and educating people on the value of Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) through sales and partner training events, customer campaigns, customer consults, launch events, BI Conferences, and various other channels and events. Kristina joined Microsoft from Business Objects SA (formerly Crystal Decisions) where she was responsible for product line product marketing for strategic alliance partnerships such as SAP and Oracle. Kristina graduated on the Dean's List from the University of Victoria (Canada) business school.

Paul Laberge is an Partner Developer Advisor for Microsoft Canada. In this role, Paul is responsible for working with System Integrators, Web Design Agencies, Custom Development Firms and IT Generalists to enable their success using the Microsoft application platform. His focus is primarily to empower companies by embracing the new and exciting web-based technologies that Microsoft offers, including Silverlight, ASP.NET, Expression Studio, Visual Studio and Sharepoint. Paul has been with Microsoft since January, 2007.

Paul brings a wealth of IT experience, having worked in the IT and Management Consulting industry for 10 years, including 7 years in a “Big 4” consulting firm. In his roles as a consultant, Paul was primarily focused on managing large scale implementations of custom development solutions across a number of different technologies and industry verticals as well as providing strategic consulting expertise to some of the largest companies in Canada and the United States.

William Oellermann is the Technology Director for the SOA Solutions Team in Microsoft Consulting Services, focused on driving and supporting strategic SOA opportunities across the United States. As an international speaker and author of numerous articles and the first serious book on the architecture of XML Web Services, “Architecting Web Services” (Apress; 2001), William has been at the forefront of Web services and SOA thought leadership for the past 6 years.

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2004, William spent nine years as a software architect in IT and consulting organizations leading the design of distributed applications for numerous Fortune 500 companies including American Greetings, Citigroup, Ericsson, Northwestern Mutual, US Bank, Neilson Media, Verizon, and Zale Corporation. Most recently, William has been leading the development of new solutions for enterprise SOA leveraging capability-based roadmaps and service virtualization.

With more than 16 years with Bombardier Aerospace, from Technology architect to managing a Windows server administration team, Alain Paquette is now a Technology Integrator. His is responsible to overlook all major technology projects, Vision and Strategy for the End User Computing, End User Change Management and Communication with internal business partners.

Before joining Microsoft, Joel worked 10 years for IBM Canada as a WebSphere Integration Architect working with several customers in successfully implementing SOA solutions.

Today, he's an Architect Advisor with Microsoft covering Eastern Canada, working mainly with architects in large accounts, helping them to leverage the richness of the Microsoft Platform in order to allow them and their business to realize their full potential.

Ram is the Senior Product Manager within SQL Server Marketing, focused on technical product management for Data Warehousing and Integration Services. Prior to Microsoft, he had over 8 years of Enterprise IT consulting, along with spending the last 3 years building clinical software products for hospitals at GE Healthcare. He has earned an MBA from University of Chicago and a B.S in Computer Engineering from Northwestern.

An industry veteran, Dave Remmer has architected solutions in the financial, multi-media, security, manufacturing, services and health care industries. He specializes in leveraging SOA, security, and standards development to realize ongoing business value within organizations. Dave focuses on current issues in architecting enterprise solutions and how to leverage the Microsoft platform to support client’s project’s architectural success. He has achieved certifications in the Java architecture and development environment as well as the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer designation.

Danielle Ruest is a senior enterprise workflow architect and consultant with more than 20 years of experience in systematic project implementations. She is the coauthor of Windows Server 2003 Pocket Administration. Danielle is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for the Virtual Machine product line.

Nelson Ruest is a senior enterprise IT architect with more than 25 years of experience in migration planning and network, PC, server, and overall solution design. He is the coauthor of Windows Server 2003: Best Practices for Enterprise Deployments. Nelson is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for the Windows Server product line.

Scott is very PASSionate about SQL Server. So much so that he started a Local Chapter for PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server – www.sqlpass.org) in Vancouver almost 4 years ago. Scott has worked with SQL Server consistently since its version 6.5 release over ten years ago. Today Scott is an independent consultant helping his clients with their unique data systems challenges.

Ryan Storgaard works on the Windows Live team at Microsoft Canada. In this role, Ryan works with customers and partners who are looking to incorporate elements of Windows Live and Windows Live Platform – such as mapping, messaging, authentication, streaming media - into their website or application in order to create a richer, more engaging, experience. Prior to this role, Ryan worked in Microsoft Canada’s Developer and Platform group helping numerous Canadian software companies build products and services on the Microsoft platform.

Darin Travis is a Technology Sales Professional for Desktop Optimization. Darin Travis has over twenty years experience as an enterprise architect working for several large consulting firms in the US. He has provided design, planning and deployment support for customers in both the public and private sector as well as various vertical industries. Darin has a wealth of experience in domain and desktop migration and application deployment. He recently served as a architectural consultant on a project consolidating 1100 domains and migrating over three hundred thousand desktops for the US Department of the Army. Darin currently supports Microsoft Canada as a pre-sales consultant for Desktop Optimization.

David Trowbridge is the Group Program Manager for the Visual Studio Team System Architecture Edition at Microsoft where he leads the effort to envision, design, construct, and release next generation software design and development tools. Using agile development methods in a large scale software development environment, his team is building tools to enable developers to evolve their codebase in an iterative and incremental fashion while enabling architects to communicate and validate standard designs and patterns within their enterprise.

Prior to Visual Studio, David was an architect in Microsoft’s patterns & practices group where he applied his enterprise experience to create authoritative reference architectures, patterns, and reusable assets targeted towards enterprise customers. During this time he was one of the key driving forces behind Microsoft’s pattern initiative, engaged and recruited industry luminaries in to the group, incubated agile development and baseline architectures, and was the lead author of two books on enterprise design patterns implemented with Microsoft technology.

After completing his computer science degree from the University of Western Ontario, Jamie spent over five years working inside the Windows Client division at Microsoft in Redmond Washington. During his time in Redmond, Jamie worked as a Program Manager on several aspects of Microsoft’s Tablet PC operating systems. This included various projects around end-user interaction design, platform API design, platform deployment strategies and spent part of his time leading the Tablet Platform team in their final integrations steps into the .Net 3.0 framework.

Jamie’s current focus at Microsoft Canada is to help Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) navigate through the various software platforms and technologies offered by Microsoft. Jamie spends a majority of his time working with ISVs architecting solutions that take advantage of Microsoft’s new and emerging technologies.